The Aporia
The Aporia
13 articles about 12 events for “Trump's Data Center Plan” in Environment.
“Created in 2001 — long before the AI boom — the city planning code defines data centres as “internet service exchanges”, a definition that may not accurately characterise the technology today.”
“WHAT WE’RE GOING TO BE WATCHING TUESDAY: Here are the energy- and climate-related ballot measures and elections that we’ll be following Tuesday: Data centers: There are 41 measures across 10 states related to data centers.”
“Collectively, they bury less CO2 than a single power plant can emit in a year, according to our analysis of sites listed in an International Energy Agency database.”
“It cuts across politics Mounting concerns about data centers are dividing candidates and pitting supports the facilities' construction as vital for economic growth. against President Trump, whoTwo in 3 Americans oppose the construction of new data centers in…”
“"Pollution by forever chemicals, nuisance suits over AI data centers, opioids litigation, all of these are about the local effects of conduct that runs across borders,"”
“Trump on the docket The new term will feature more constitutional disputes over the power of the executive, with current or anticipated fights over immigration, federal bureaucracy reforms and possibly the White House ballroom and Kennedy Center construction…”
“And in July, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, the territory’s leading environmental research center, temporarily halted any new collaboration with US partners when President Donald Trump threatened to take over the island.”
“According to data obtained through a public records request by the Center for Biological Diversity and shared with The Nevada Independent, the agency's Nevada workforce fell from 134 employees in 2024 to 85 in 2026, a decline of about 38%.”
“This includes emissions data from facilities such as power plants, oil refineries, manufacturing plants, and more.”
“According to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center, the storm is forecast to make landfall in parts of the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi late Friday or early Saturday.”
“This argument, however, clashes with the Trump administration’s own claims that the Clean Air Act does not give the EPA the authority to regulate emissions for vehicles and power plants – a claim affirmed by the agency as recently as last month.”
“In a modern five-story building in the center of Hamburg, Germany, technicians are preparing to install several new “racks”—gray metal casings that hold computing hardware—alongside the scores that already line the narrow, dimly lit corridors of the German…”
“There are currently 1,287 data centers in operation in the U.S., with more than 2,000 planned projects, according to Clearview, a market intelligence company tracking U.S. power infrastructure and data center development.”